Hook and eye.



No. 705,!59. Patented July 22, I902.

L. A. SUTHERLAND.

HOOK AND EYE.

(Application filed Jan. 3, 1902.)

(No Model.)

/7 52%, Wf I UNITED STATES PATENT LUCY A. SUTHERLAND, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 705,159, dated July 22,1902.

Application filed January 3, 1902. Serial No. 88,321. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUCY A. SUTHERLAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes; and I dohereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to hooks and eyes, and particularly comprises ahook and eye and improved means for attaching same to the garment ormaterial to be fastened.

The object of the invention is to provide hooks and eyes with animproved safety-pin attachment, whereby they may be readily attached toand detached from garments.

A further object is to form a hook o1 eye and the attaching-pin of asingle piece of wire.

The invention is illustrated in the acc0mpanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a plan view of the hook and eye hooked together. Fig. 2 is aside View in perspective thereof.

Referring particularly to the drawings, the hook and its attaching-pinare formed of a single piece of wire, the pin being in a plane below thehook portion. The shank of the hook consists of two parallel sideportions 6 and 7 and an intermediate portion 8, formed by a return-bendat the rear end of the por tion 6. The forward ends of the side portions are joined together and are bent up and back to form the hookproper, 9. The inter mediate portion 8 is bent up at its forward end toform a hump or tongue 10 and thence is bent downwardly, as at 11, belowthe plane of the shank and rear wardly to form the pin 12, which isparallel with the shank, but in a lower plane. The parallel reaches andthe bends connecting the same give the pin the requisite elasticity tonor mally retain it in engagement with the catch now to be described.

The rear end of the side portion '7 is bent downwardly, as at 13, atsubstantially a right angle to the plane of the shank and thencelaterally and upwardly to form a safety catch 14 for the point of thepin. The eye is similarly formed, except that the forward ends of theconnected side portions 6 and '7 are spread laterally to form a loop oreye proper, 9. The intermediate portion 8 is bent downwardly at itsforward end, as at 11, and then rearwardly to form the pin 12. The sideportion 7 is bent, as at 13 and 14., to form the safety-catch in thesame manner as the hook above described.

The hook and the eye are attached to the cloth of a garment by the pinsin the same manner as an ordinary safety-pin and can thus be located soas to bring the edges of the cloth together properly. They can bereadily changed from one garment to another and will not easily becomeaccidentally detached from the garment nor from each other.

When the pin extends longitudinally of the shank--that is, in the samedirection as the strainit is believed to give greater strength and holdthan if the pin were entended laterally, across the direction of thestrain.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. An eye comprising parallel side bars joined at their front ends andformed into a loop, an intermediate bar connected to the rear end of oneof said bars, said intermediate bar being parallel to and in the sameplane as said side bars and bent downwardly at its front end to form anattaching-pin in a lower parallel plane, the other side bar being bentat its rear end to form a safety-catch for the end of the pin.

2. A hook comprising parallel side bars joined at their front ends andbent upwardly to form a bill, an intermediate bar connected to the rearend of one of said bars, said intermediate bar being parallel to and inthe same plane as said side bars, and bent downwardly at its front endto form an attaching-pin in a lower parallel plane, the other side barbeing bent at its rear end to form a safety-catch for the end of thepin.

.In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUCY A. SUTI-IERLAND.

Witnesses:

NELLIE FELTSKOG, HARRY G. Barcnnnom IOC

